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Rare 1913 nickel fetches over $3.1M at auction
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (AP) ? A rare century-old U.S. nickel that was once mistakenly declared a fake and forgotten about for decades has sold at auction for more than $3.1 million.
The 1913 Liberty Head nickel is one of only five known to exist. But it's all the more prized because of its unusual back story: It was surreptitiously and illegally cast, discovered in a car wreck that killed its owner, declared a fake, forgotten in a closet for decades and then declared the real deal.
It was offered up for sale Thursday by four Virginia siblings at a rare coin and currency auction in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg where it sold for well over the expected $2.5 million.
The winning bidders were two men from Lexington, Ky., and Panama City, Fla., who bought the coin in partnership, according to Heritage Auctions.
"Not only is it just one of only five known, genuine 1913-dated Liberty Head design nickels, this particular one was off the radar for decades until it literally came out of the closet after a nationwide search," said Heritage Auctions Vice President Todd Imhof.
The coin was struck at the Philadelphia mint in late 1912, the final year of its issue, but with the year 1913 cast on its face ? the same year the beloved Buffalo Head nickel was introduced.
A mint worker named Samuel W. Brown is suspected of producing the coin and altering the die to add the bogus date, according to Douglas Mudd, curator of the American Numismatic Association Money Museum in Colorado Springs, Col., which has held the coin for most of the past 10 years.
The coins' existence wasn't known until Brown offered them for sale at the American Numismatic Association Convention in Chicago in 1920, beyond the statute of limitations. The five remained together as a set under various owners until 1942.
A North Carolina collector, George O. Walton, purchased one of the coins in the mid-1940s for a reported $3,750. The coin was with him when he was killed in a car crash on March 9, 1962, and it was found among hundreds of coins scattered at the crash site.
One of Walton's heirs, his sister, Melva Givens of Salem, Va., was given the 1913 Liberty nickel after experts declared the coin a fake because of suspicions the date had been altered. The flaw probably happened because of Brown's imprecise work casting the planchet ? the copper and nickel blank disc used to create the coin.
"She kept the nickel in a box with family items in the closet, and it stayed there for four decades," said Givens' son, Ryan Givens of Salem.
After his mother's death, the siblings brought the coin to the 2003 American Numismatic Association World's Fair of Money in Baltimore, where the four surviving 1913 Liberty nickels were being exhibited. A team of rare coin experts concluded it was the long-missing fifth coin. Each shared a small imperfection under the date.
Since its authentication, the Walton nickel has been on loan to the Colorado Springs museum and has been publicly exhibited nationwide.
"This is one of the greatest coins at that price range," said one of the successful bidders, Jeff Garrett of Lexington, Ky.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rare-1913-nickel-fetches-over-3-1m-auction-132137444.html
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WSCC Awards Convocation is May 3 - Ludington Daily News - News
Thursday, April 25, 2013
West Shore Community College will be recognizing students? academic achievements and awarding scholarships on Friday, May 3.The Student Awards Convocation will be held at 7 p.m. in the Center Stage Theater located in the Arts and Sciences Center and the public is invited to attend.
During the convocation, two students will be recognized as the outstanding nursing graduate and the outstanding graduate in liberal arts/sciences or career and technical education.
Approximately 100 students will be receiving over 170 scholarships offered through the college. The WSCC Foundation provides many of these scholarships through funds that are invested or raised by an annual fund drive or the major gifts campaign.
Service awards will also be presented to students who were active in various campus organizations during the 2012-13 academic year.
Along with students receiving their awards, WSCC alumnus Dr. Carolyn Brown, of the Manistee Veterinary Hospital, will be the distinguished alumni speaker.
Brown earned an Associate of Arts degree in 1998, with honors, from WSCC and she currently resides in Custer. She is a 1996 graduate of Mason County Eastern High School and the daughter of Philip and Ruth Sommerfeldt also of Custer.
Brown received her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine degree in 2004 from Michigan State University. She has also completed coursework and training for veterinary acupuncture through the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society.
Prior to taking her position in Manistee, Brown worked at several veterinary hospitals around the country as a small animal associate veterinarian. She has also started a home-based business providing acupuncture treatments for dogs and cats. In August 2002, she was a Miracle of Life worker at the Michigan State Fair.
The annual convocation is held the week prior to commencement which will take place on May 10, at 7 p.m. in the campus Recreation Center.
Source: http://www.ludingtondailynews.com/news/70851-wscc-awards-convocation-is-may-3
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Japanese tsunami debris washes ashore in California
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (AP) ? A barnacle-covered fishing boat that washed ashore this month in Crescent City, Calif., has been confirmed as the first debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan to reach California's shores.
The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration confirmed the boat's origin on Thursday with help from the Japanese Consulate in San Francisco, the Del Norte Triplicate reported (http://bit.ly/15MeRTl ).
In total, 27 items from among more than 1,600 reports of debris have now been firmly traced back to the tsunami, NOAA spokeswoman Keeley Belva said. The confirmed items include a small boat found in Hawaii waters, large docks that have washed ashore in Washington state and Oregon and a motorcycle that washed ashore off the coast of British Columbia.
The 20-foot vessel that landed in Crescent City on April 7 belongs to the marine sciences program at Takata High School in the city of Rikuzentakata.
Lori Dengler, a geologist with Humboldt State University, posted photos of the boat to Rikuzentakata's Facebook page after translating the vessel's handwritten characters with the help of a Humboldt State librarian, according to the Triplicate.
The boat was marked, "Takata High School," and also had characters for "Rikuzentakata."
Dengler, who had travelled to Rikuzentakata immediately after the 2011 tsunami, said the city's global public relations officer, Amya Miller, tracked down the school and found a teacher who recognized the boat within hours of the photos being posted.
"Everything that was lost, we just never expected to find again," Miller told the Triplicate earlier this month. Hundreds of the city's residents died in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami and only a handful of buildings were left standing. "That something made it across the Pacific and landed practically on your doorstep is one of those 'you can't make this up' moments. Right now everyone is in sort of a giddy state of shock."
A soccer ball found on an Alaska island with a student's name on it has also been traced to Rikuzentakata.
But distinguishing everyday trash from tsunami debris has proven difficult in most other cases. The Japanese government estimated that 1.5 million tons of debris was floating in the ocean immediately after the disaster.
Items that are confirmed as having come from the tsunami, like the soccer ball and boat, tend to have unique markings.
What's next for the boat is not clear. Miller told the Triplicate earlier this month the high school would like to have it back.
"Having it back I know would be incredibly meaningful only because the school lost so much - the city lost so much," she said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/first-confirmed-japanese-tsunami-debris-calif-142652960.html
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PFT: Jets bringing in Geno Smith this week
Getty ImagesAs career implosions go, it doesn?t happen much more quickly than it did for cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, who went in roughly 20 months from being the prize of the post-lockout free-agency class to a one-year, $1.35 million base deal.
But at least Asomugha is still in the league.
Defensive end Ray Edwards, who jumped from the Vikings to the Falcons after the lockout, was cut during his second season in Atlanta, and he never has been heard from again.
Except, of course, when knocking guys out with punches so ferocious they don?t even have to, you know, connect.
Edwards, who now embraces boxing in large part because the NFL no longer embraces him, is the subject of a slow-news-day profile in USA Today.? He claims he didn?t know about Nick Capes? plan to take a no-punch dive.? Edwards also claims that his football career didn?t deserve the knockout blow it received from the Falcons.
?When they say you?re a bad apple, they don?t want you on your team; Terrell Owens is evidence,? Edwards said.? ?Before [Owens] left the game, he was a 1,000-yard receiver, but he didn?t get a job because of people saying he?s a bad person.? It?s hard to get second chances in the NFL because it?s a product line coming out of college.
?I think [Falcons head coach] Mike Smith [gave me the problem player label] because me and him weren?t on the best of terms.? He felt someone was better than me, but I knew he wasn?t.? Players didn?t agree with him.? He just didn?t like me.?
Other football coaches are smart enough to factor in those potential personal conflicts.? Disregarding whatever the Falcons were saying, the Seahawks (who gave Owens a chance last year) brought Edwards in for a tire-kicking after he was cut.? But when defensive end Chris Clemons tore an ACL in the wild-card round, Pete Carroll and John Schneider dusted off concussion-lawsuit plaintiff Patrick Chukwurah for a divisional-round game at Atlanta ? even though Edwards surely would have had extra motivation (and maybe some inside information) to help Seattle win in the Georgia Dome.
?If you don?t do what they tell to do in the NFL, exactly how they tell you to do it, you have a bad attitude,? Edwards said.? ?I have a bad attitude because I want to be on the field?? That sounds like a winning attitude to me.?
No, it sounds like a guy who knows better than his coach, and who doesn?t know when to accept the coach?s decision and move on.
Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/09/geno-smith-visiting-the-jets-this-week/related
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Libyan prime minister's abducted aide is freed
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? A senior Libyan official says that the prime minister's chief of staff has been freed after eight days in captivity by a militia.
Deputy Prime Minister Abdel-Salam al-Qadi told The Associated Press that Mohamed Ali Ghatous had been released late Monday.
He gave no further details Tuesday about the kidnapping or release.
A day earlier, Prime Minister Ali Zidan said that four vehicles belonging to a militia were involved in Ghatous' March 31 abduction east of the capital Tripoli.
Ghatous disappeared shortly after the prime minister was besieged in his office by militiamen over remarks he made threatening to summon outside help to confront the armed groups.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-prime-ministers-abducted-aide-freed-144714082.html
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Mysterious stone structure found beneath Sea of Galilee
Shmuel Marco
The circular structure was first detected in a sonar survey of part of the sea in the summer of 2003.
By Owen Jarus
LiveScience
A giant "monumental" stone structure discovered beneath the waters of the Sea of Galilee in Israel has archaeologists puzzled as to its purpose and even how long ago it was built.
The mysterious structure is cone shaped, made of "unhewn basalt cobbles and boulders," and weighs an estimated 60,000 tons, the researchers said. That makes it heavier than most modern-day warships.
Rising nearly 32 feet (10 meters) high, it has a diameter of about 230 feet (70 meters). To put that in perspective, the outer stone circle of Stonehenge has a diameter just half that with its tallest stones not reaching that height. [See Photos of the Mysterious Sea of Galilee Structure]
It appears to be a giant cairn, rocks piled on top of each other. Structures like this are known from elsewhere in the world and are sometimes used to mark burials. Researchers do not know if the newly discovered structure was used for this purpose.
The structure was first detected in the summer of 2003 during a sonar survey of the southwest portion of the sea. Divers have since been down to investigate, they write in the latest issue of the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.?
"Close inspection by scuba diving revealed that the structure is made of basalt boulders up to 1 m (3.2 feet) long with no apparent construction pattern," the researchers write in their journal article. "The boulders have natural faces with no signs of cutting or chiselling. Similarly, we did not find any sign of arrangement or walls that delineate this structure."?
Diagram courtesy of Shmuel Marco
Putting all the data together researchers found that the structure is cone shaped, about 230 feet (70 meters) in diameter and nearly 32 feet (10 meters) tall. It weighs an estimated 60,000 tons.
They say it is definitely human-made and probably was built on land, only later to be covered by the Sea of Galilee as the water level rose. "The shape and composition of the submerged structure does not resemble any natural feature. We therefore conclude that it is man-made and might be termed a cairn," the researchers write.
More than 4,000 years old?
Underwater archaeological excavation is needed so scientists can find associated artifacts and determine the structure's date and purpose, the researchers said.
Researcher Yitzhak Paz, of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Ben-Gurion University, believes it could date back more than 4,000 years. "The more logical possibility is that it belongs to the third millennium B.C., because there are other megalithic phenomena (from that time) that are found close by," Paz told LiveScience in an interview, noting that those sites are associated with fortified settlements.?
The researchers list several examples of megalithic structures found close to the Sea of Galilee?that are more than 4,000 years-old. One example is the monumental site of Khirbet Beteiha, located some 19 miles (30 kilometers) north-east of the submerged stone structure, the researchers write. It "comprises three concentric stone circles, the largest of which is 56 m (184 feet) in diameter." [Gallery: Aerial Photos Reveal Mysterious Stone Structures]
An ancient city
If the third-millennium B.C. date idea proves correct it would put the structure about a mile to the north of a city that researchers call "Bet Yerah" or "Khirbet Kerak."
During the third millennium B.C. the city was one of the biggest sites in the region, Paz said. "It's the most powerful and fortified town in this region and, as a matter of fact, in the whole of Israel."
Archaeologist Raphael Greenberg describes it in a chapter of the book "Daily Life, Materiality, and Complexity in Early Urban Communities of the Southern Levant" (Eisenbrauns, 2011) as being a heavily fortified 74-acre (30 hectares) site with up to 5,000 inhabitants.
With paved streets and towering defenses its people were clearly well organized. "They also indicate the existence of some kind of municipal authority able to maintain public structures," Greenberg writes.
The research team says that, like the leaders of Bet Yerah, whoever built the newly discovered Sea of Galilee structure needed sophisticated organization and planning skills to construct it. The "effort invested in such an enterprise is indicative of a complex, well-organized society, with planning skills and economic ability," they write in their journal paper.
Paz added that "in order to build such a structure, a lot of working hours were required" in an organized community effort.
Future exploration
Paz said that he hopes soon that an underwater archaeological expedition will set out to excavate the structure. They can search for artifacts and try to determine its date with certainty.
He said that the Israel Antiquities Authority has a research branch capable of excavating it. "We will try to do it in the near future, I hope, but it depends on a lot of factors."
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